[Evergreen-general] Feature idea for patrons accounts; Personalized Carousels

[Johnathon Redmon]

I agree with once third party companies get involved, that could become a
privacy issue. Especially if patrons can't opt out easily. Goodreads is
probably a good compromise if third parties would have to be involved to do
it.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:16 PM Terran McCanna <
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> I feel fairly certain this would be a pretty massive project to come up
> with a way to determine recommendations and may or may not be worth the
> time and development expense since there are third party vendors that
> already do similar things as part of their core business. Syndetics and
> NoveList added content will both provide recommendations at the title or
> author level (ie, you look up a book you liked and it will recommend others
> that are available to you through the library), and then there are other
> companies that can generate recommendations based on personal reading
> history - that is going to depend on providing them with a certain amount
> of user data though, and that gets really tricky with patron
> confidentiality.
>
> Of course, users can also download their reading history as a CSV file and
> upload it to GoodReads themselves if they are somewhat savvy - this could
> probably made easier with a relatively small development project to allow
> patrons to export their booklist in a format that was specifically
> compatible to goodreads so they wouldn't have to do any editing to it
> (unless they wanted to) after they downloaded it.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:37 AM Johnathon Redmon via Evergreen-general <
> evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm a cataloger, not a programmer so I don't know how reasonable (or
>> possible) this is. But ever since I first heard about the idea of
>> carousels, I've dreamed of being able to log into my patron account and
>> have a netflix style recommendation carousel hooked on to an algorithm that
>> suggests items based on the 1xx, 6xx and 7xx marc fields of items you've
>> recently checked out. What would be the possibility of such a feature, and
>> what kind of hurdles would have to be jumped to do this?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Johnathon Redmon
>> Technical Services Cataloging Clerk
>> Monticello Union-Township Public Library
>> 321 W. Broadway St.
>> Monticello, IN 47960
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Johnathon Redmon
Technical Services Cataloging Clerk
Monticello Union-Township Public Library
321 W. Broadway St.
Monticello, IN 47960
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